| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Clipstone Colliery |
| Parent Body | Bolsover Colliery Company (1912-1947) |
| National Coal Board, later British Coal (1947-1993) |
| RJB Mining (1994-2003) |
| Place | Clipstone, Nottinghamshire |
| Epithet | coal mine |
| Dates | 1912-2003 |
| History | The colliery was first opened by the Bolsoevr Colliery Company in 1912, following a lease of land from the Duke of Portland. It worked the Top Hard and Yard coal seams. It only operated for a couple of years before it was forced to close at the outbreak of the First World War, and it did not reopen again until 1920. The onsite facilities included screening and cleaning plants, as well as attached railway sidings.
The colliery was taken over by the National Coal Board in 1947 during the nationalization of the coal industry. It was briefly closed in 1993 by British Coal, but was reopened again in April 1994 by RJB Mining. It finally closed for good in 2003. |
| Key Events | 1912: Land first leased from the Duke of Portland by the Bolsover Colliery Company
1914-1920: Closed during the First World War
1947: Nationalisation
1993: Briefly closed by British Coal
1994: Reopened by RJB Mining
2003: Closed |
| Source | "Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, Bolsover: Jubilee Souvenir, 1889-1939 (1939)
Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, Bolsover: The Company and its Coal (1940)
Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, The Monthly News: A Social Magazine for the Employees of the Bolsover Colliery Company Limited, no 5 (May 1923)
Northern Mine Research Society, Clipstone Colliery, https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/derbynotts/mansfield/clipstone/
Weiss, M., Coal Mines Remembered 2 (2011)" |
| Authorised Form of Name | Clipstone, Nottinghamshire; Clipstone Colliery; 1912-2003; coal mine |
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